When a problem threatens to engulf you, there's nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water. - John le Carre - Quotesmemo.com

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Now if I don't meet you no more in this world, then I'll, I'll meet you in the next one, and don't be late, don't be late, cause I'm a voodoo chile.

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John le Carre

When a problem threatens to engulf you, there's nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water.

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A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

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I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.

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My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. What I see in my country, progressively over these years, is that the rich have got richer, the poor have got poorer. The rich have become indifferent through a philosophy of greed, and the poorer have become hopeless because they're not properly cared for. That's actually something that is happening in many Western societies. Your own, I am told, is not free from it.

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Let's all pretend to be someone else, and then perhaps we'll find out who we are.

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There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

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